Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (656 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1907317104 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Includes a series of short biographies of artists and collectives currently working with cardboard." The Craft's Council"Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now features a parade of funky chairs, punch-out animal models, milk cartons, birdhouses - and even a record sleeve that (with craftily concealed needle) can play its own contents." World of Interiors"Eye candy for paper lovers featuring over 200 pages of cardboard used in furniture design, packaging, art and architecture." Rag & Bone. "A celebration of 'paper's poor relation', this book charts cardboard's design possibilities, from the humble packaging box to the more recent (and more ambitious) architectural interiors
Five Stars Shaban Al-Refai Great book, lots of pics and explanation.
The environmental benefits are an encouraging factor for eco-conscious designers and Outside the Box profiles some of these leading designs.Drawing on historical and traditional approaches, Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now charts the medium’s evolution through to modern practices, profiling some of today’s most inspirational and provocative artists and designers working across the fields of art, design and sculpture. The work of Shigeru Ban is included, whose cardboard disaster relief housing, churches and cardboard schools that deconstruct after use, have seen him exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art New York and cited as a leading auteur in the forward-thinking realm of eco-architecture.Outside the Box: Cardboard Design Now, is attractively packaged with a cardboard cover and pull out features, showing the reader the possibilities of cardboard design. The versatility of the material makes it almost unavoidably ubiquitous, but not necessarily inspiring. Examples of these designs with cardboard include; a cardboard wendy-house, designed by Peter Henke at Dutch firm Kidsonroof; pop-out toys and decorations created by A4A; interior design companies who re-articulated card-based storage as elegant, minimal additions to household product design and the internationally renowned, minimalist Japanese retail